Arknights: Prelude To Dawn: Episode 4 "Loyalty" Review

Mobile games like Arknights are some of the biggest teases out there, in that from the outside looking in they present themselves as much larger than it is. People who have seen its myriad ads and animated promotional material no doubt have committed its name and iconography to memory without ever seeing a glimpse of the tower-defense gamep


Arknights ' TV series is already almost half over, and thus far the world is compelling and yearning to be shown off through the beautiful artwork more, but the story and characters themselves are mixed. Amiya is a far more interesting protagonist than she was in the first episode, but the cast at large hasn't yet truly impressed


In a dystopian future, the inhabitants of the planet Terra display traits of animals, and a disease has spread across the world called "oripathy." This disease actually gives people the capability to wield magic, but such benefits are meager before the mortality and infectious spr


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Thankfully, as the characters make their escape and return home, there is more good than bad, starting with the aforementioned elaboration on the catastrophe. Not only is there raining fire, but the meteors themselves contain Originium, thus creating large crystalline fields full of the mineral. It's a mineral that grows, meaning there isn't much scarc


With that said, Arknights ' premiere does a fine job of introducing audiences to the world of Terra through the eyes of the protagonist much in the same way a game might. Perhaps the amnesia trope and the resulting exposition can come off as a tiresome conceit to the mobile game's trappings, but it's all in service of translating the game's mechanics into a functional st


It's also worth considering the cultural blend of influences that inspired the original game, it being a Chinese game and Chinese animation (donghua) having a noticeable difference in style. So it's natural that this anime would feel slightly different, translating an art style that is very against the gr


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Speaking of Ace, his seeming death was perhaps the show's first misstep from a directing standpoint , if only because it is so poorly edited. We are shown him, alone, facing down Reunion at supposedly full strength, and then in the next scene, only he and one member of his unit rem


One of the Rhodes Island soldiers angrily expresses that the clinic got what was coming to it, as they had refused to help Rhodes Island as well. What followed was an interesting monologue by Amiya, who expresses that even if they have a commonality, it doesn't make it easy to trust people. She expresses how humans build walls to feel safe because they want some degree of norma


Arknights came back strong this week with a more relaxed episode introducing a new locale and new characters, dropping hints of a more significant battle to come. Until that happens, however, it's nice to see a new city to get a sense of what normal life is like in this world that has so far only been explored through ruin and


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In one last display of the mobile game formula translated into a narrative, Doctor and Rhodes Island's mobile base is introduced: a large moving settlement. Doctor's phone AI introduces them to all the amenities and explains the community that has formed within, just as a tutorial might explain a game's interface with a dash of dietetic narrative fl


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This new series could be an opportunity to get even more fans turned off by the series' trappings as a mobile game, as well as a chance to elevate Yostar Pictures should the show prove successful. As of now, there is no word on where the anime games crafting guide will stream outside of Japan, but hopefully, some update will come s